Re: wxwidgets terminal follows its pace

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 June 2005 06:23 am, Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote:
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>>I had to chose in which order things are drawn. Until now, I've decided=
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>>to group things by categories : polygons, lines, text, fillboxes. And I=
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>>draw polygons before lines, so lines appear over the pm3d plot, as if i=
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>>were transparent. However, I can change its behaviour to make things=20
>>drawn exactly in the order that gnuplot give.
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> I think it is important that objects are drawn in the order given by
> gnuplot.  Otherwise the "front" and "back" qualifiers lose their meanin=
g,
> and certain plot styles may be oddly rendered (e.g. candlesticks+fill;=20
> histograms+errorbars). The plot styles could, if necessary, be rewritte=
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> to omit the occluded elements rather than over-writing them with a soli=
d
> fill, but to me it seems there is value in having the core code be
> able to control the order of drawing.

Agreed.  This also makes one's life easier.  That would still leave open =
the possibility for altering the plot after the fact via something like t=
kwidgets, but at the driver level maintain order.

Dan